Pick ElevenLabs if
podcast, product, and localization teams who need controllable multilingual speech.
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Our take
Pick ElevenLabs if podcast, product, and localization teams who need controllable multilingual speech. Pick Retell if teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit. Skip ElevenLabs if users who only want chat, or teams that cannot send scripts to a US-hosted voice API. Skip Retell if buyers who want one all-in minute that already includes the LLM (Bland).
Best for
ElevenLabs TTS, voice cloning, or dubbing
Retell A phone or chat agent billed by the minute
Free plan
ElevenLabs $0 · , 10,000 credits
Retell $0 · to start. Retell Voice Infra $0.055/min. Platform voices / Minimax / Fish / Cartesia / OpenAI / Inworld TTS $0.015/min. ElevenLabs Flash $0.040/min (higher ElevenLabs rows on the same table). LLM rows are per-minute (example GPT 4.1 $0.045/min). 20 concurrent included
Lowest paid
ElevenLabs Starter $6/mo
Retell Telephony $0.015
Next step up
ElevenLabs Creator $22/mo
Retell Monthly add-ons $2/mo
Coding agent
ElevenLabs Agents / dubbing / image-video
Retell Simulation testing
Runs where
ElevenLabs Hosted
Retell
Watch out
ElevenLabs Credits are not minutes
Retell Infra is not the all-in rate
Last checked
ElevenLabs 2026-10-19 · elevenlabs.io/pricing
Retell 2026-10-22 · retellai.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Retell if
teams that want a voice agent today and will pay minutes + add-ons, without an annual commit.
Read the Retell page